Web Based Site Monitoring Tools
Some praise for Site24x7.
VMWare: Coming Out of the Cloud?
EC2 is my current pick for most interesting / innovative tech development of the year. Everyone will have to have an EC2 clone by the end of 2008.
Unison File Synchronizer - User Manual and Reference Guide
I'm gonna give this a try for managing home directories now that I've convinced myself that version control is the wrong solution. I moved my homes from CVS to SVN a couple years ago and just tried going with bzr but VCS just isn’t right here.
What to watch out for when writing portable shell scripts
Nice look at techniques for writing portable sh.
ZFS Basics Screencast [opensolaris.org]
I haven’t had a chance to play yet but you can consider me on the ZFS bandwagon. It’s coming to FreeBSD 7.0, too. Oodalolly!
UNIX® Load Average Part 1: How It Works
Love it! This is less of an article and more of a minute by minute account of hacker seeing something he doesn’t understand and following the trail (man, code, calculus) to understanding.
How to make multiple SSH connections to the same host faster
All you have to do is add a few lines to ~/ssh/config.